Henry Stephen, a popular pop performer, considers the rock venezolano desde los años 60, the fall cido víctima de la covid-19 and the hospital Militar de Caracas a 79 años. Stephen is recorded, about everything, by interpreting Limón limonero, a pegajosa song launched on the market in 1968 that was converted into an intergenerational anthem in the country, that commercialized television commercials for many years and that it had to conquer on the international terrain. Lemon lemonade fue el hit número 1 del verano español aquel año. In 1974, the company RCA awarded the prize with a gold disc to log the million copies sold.
Henry Stephen was born in Cabimas, Estado de Zulia, on July 15, 1941. His father was a native of the island of Granada and his mother, from Trinidad and Tobago. Habían arrived in Venezuela in the finals of the 30 years to work on the petrol camps that the Anglohoandese company Shell was exploding.
Formed in the Maracaibo vecina, the second city of the country, Stephen irrumpio in the Venezuelan musical stage of the 60s as a vocalist of Los Impala, a popular aggregation that is known for grabbing some versions in Spanish of The Beatles and giving fashion to other surcripts written in the onda ye-ye. A couple of years later, it started to appear as a soloist and was converted into one of the artists of the portfolio of Renny Ottolina, known producer and presenter, the singer of the Venezuelan television show of the 50s and 60s.
With the patron saint of Ottolina, the first musician moved to Spain in 1967 to participate in the Montjuic Festival, in which the second place takes place. Apart from songs, Stephen lived in Spain and participated in youth programs, television musicals and concerts that offered, in addition, the opportunity to visit with his music Italy, Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
With the passing of time, following the orientation of the market, Stephen let go of the rock to irse adentrando in the world of pop ballad. Bajo el cello RCA, grabó su disco Lord Henry –in the spring there is another of his excitos, La nave del olvido– and one more adalante puso in the radial emitters Te hy perdido, ballad that is considered a classic by the Venezuelan youth finalists of 60s and principles of the 70s. In the dynamic city of Caracas of water entones, Stephen shared scenarios with Aretha Franklin, Miriam Makeeba and Roberta Flack. Stephen, who has been a personal favorite of all the public in Venezuela since the time of his three decades, has participated occasionally in telenovelas, musical performances, humorous programs, interviews and nostalgic concerts.
The death of the author of Lemon lemonade has been profusely commented on television and country radio. Various digital portal information and analysis has been recorded with nostalgia for its exits and influences, belonging to an era of national prosperity that has many lejans and is invoked with frequency. At the same time, the mayor’s plan of chavismo, initiated by Nicolás Maduro –and also Delcy Rodríguez, Jorge Arreaza, Ernesto Villegas, among other ministers and ministers–, issued statements lamenting Stephen’s death and sending condolences to his family. The Minister of the Defense of Maduro, Vladimir Padrino López, sums up the public condolences and colleges in his Twitter account a video on the part of Stephen in a recent act in the Military Circle of Caracas, singing to a public figure composing members of Alto Mando and his relatives.